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'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman' [32] (46/226)
The record is made up of 1 volume (112 folios). It was created in 1933. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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32
CHAr. ii.
, HEALTH-
[ KUWAIT.
8. Health. —Prevailing diseases—
(1) Eye diseases.
(2) Ear diseases.
<3) Skin diseases.
(4) Tuberculosis.
(5) Digestive diseases.
(6) "Venereal diseases.
In order of incidence.
Epidemics. —There have been no epidemics of Cholera
or Plague for many years. Small-pox is endemic all
the year round. The town being walled lends itself to
Strict quarantine supervision, the regulations of which are
governed by the Paris Sanitary Convention of 1926.
irisecis —A very few sandflies and mosquitoes appear in
the Spring and Summer; the latter are mostly of the non-
malarial type though a few cases of malaria have been v
found during the last 3 years, in persons who have never
-left the town. Flies are troublesome during the Spring
:-and Autumn months only. No mosquito nets are necessaij.
Hospitals. —There is a charitable Dispensary for Out
patients only, but the American Mission have a hue
Hospital, where Europeans can be treated.
Quarantine. —The quarantine service for Kuwait
Bahrein and Muscat is under the direction of the Political
Agents at those places and the
agency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
surgeon at each
place acts as quarantine medical officer.
9 p os tal. —There is an Iraq Government Post Office
in Kuwait; in which the postage stamps sold are however
fVmse ef the Government of India. This latter arrange
ment is due to the reluctance of the Sheikh of Kuwait to
have the head of a neighbouring Arab ruler on stamps
sold in his own territory. Now that Iraq has entered the
iLeaeue of Nations and gained her independence steps are
being taken to have a British Post Office and wireless
-service.
BAHREIN.
General Rescript ion.—The Sheikhdom of Bahrein con
sists of the archipelago formed by the islands of Manama,
Muharraq, Umm-Na'san, Sitrah and Nebi Sala, with a
number of lesser islets and rocks. The whole forms a
©ompact group almost in the middle of the bight which
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The volume is Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. and Oman (Calcutta: Government of India Press, 1933). The volume was produced by the General Staff, India. The place name Bahrain is rendered in the title and elsewhere in the volume in the spelling 'Bahrein'.
The volume contains information in separate sections for each of the places listed in the title under the following chapter headings:
- I Historical (ff 8-14);
- II Geography, Climate, Health (ff 15-54);
- III Population (ff 54-67);
- IV Water Supply; Resources (ff 68-70);
- V Armed Forces (ff 70-75);
- VI Aviation (ff 75-78);
- VII Political (ff 79-81);
- VIII Inter-Communication [wireless and telegraph] (ff 81-82);
- IX Communications [land routes] (ff 83-98).
There are three appendices, which follow the same format:
- I Currency, Weights and Measures (f 99-102);
- II Landing Facilities - Maritime (ff 103-106);
- III List of Maps (f 106).
The volume includes five maps of the region (ff 109-113).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (112 folios)
- Arrangement
There is a list of contents on ff 6-7, which contains an inaccuracy in the title and number of the last chapter.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the front cover and terminates at 113 on the last of the five maps inserted in a pocket attached to the back cover. The numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. All five maps (ff 109, 110, 111, 112, 113) need to folded out to be examined. This is the system used to determine the sequence of pages in the volume.
Pagination: an original printed pagination sequence, numbered 2-198 appears between ff 8-106.
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- 'Military Report on the Arabian Shores of the Persian Gulf, Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, Trucial Oman and Oman'
- Pages
- front, front-i, i-r:iii-r, ii-v, iv-r:iv-v, 1:4, 1:208, v-r:v-v, back-i, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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